Cómo les va??? I had to laugh a little
bit when someone sent me a letter saying that temperatures had reached 80
degrees, making that one of the hottest days so far this year. Yikes. This Tuesday it
hit 43 C this week. (Who knows what that is in Fahrenheit... --actually 109.4 F) I had never felt
it being so hot before.
Then... God showed mercy and sent
beautiful rain on Tuesday night almost out of nowhere, and Wednesday and
Thursday and almost every day it rained a little bit. It made it super-duper
humid but you win some you lose some, right? I
was thinking a lot about Nefi and how he talks about the tender mercies of the
Lord. We sure got one here this week.
Other than that.... What can I tell you about this week??? We found a lot of really, really cool investigators
and had really awesome lessons with them... but only one came to church. We don't know what happened with the other four we were waiting
for but we'll have to do some good following up this week like my buddy, Elder
Ballard.
Lately I have decided that I just have
to be super bold with people but it scares me at times. I feel like Thomas S.
Monson in a talk he gave in Priesthood 2010 I think where he started by saying
"I wish not to offend anyone..." I don't want to hurt anyone's
feelings but at the same time it is necessary for them to know that their
baptism isn't valid and that their church doesn't have authority from
God. Whenever I try to be tactful about it, they don't
understand so I just shoot it straight to them... It's actually worked a lot better
but it still scares me.
For example, last night we passed by a
family sitting out front (Mexican tradition that I am TOTALLY doing after the
mission) twice and the second time I felt like we needed to talk to them. As we
got closer, I started doing some small talk with them and they warmed up even
though at first they seemed like they weren't too excited to see us coming to
them. We shared a part of the message and testified and then invited them to
learn more. G., the husband told us thanks but that they already were
members of the true Church of Christ (another church). I explained about prophets and
the restoration after and then he asked, "Who
started your church?" I told him that Christ restored it in 1820 and you
should have seen that old man's face. He cringed a bit and made a nasty little
sound and said, "Are you mad???" He went on to talk about Peter and
how Christ established a church on Peter... I'll give it to him, he knew his
stuff honestly. I haven't met a [member of their church] that knew so much. We left after I
told him that I knew that Christ's true church had been lost for almost two
thousand years and that thanks to Joseph Smith, Christ was able to restore it!
Well... time’s up
but... We'll see you this Sunday! (Mother's Day call) Literally!
President and Sister Garcia came to Calkini yesterday. Yay!
We got SOAKED!!
Soccer ball made up of different players from around the world. Everyone is getting riled up for the world cup here.
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